Respiratory activity is controlled by inputs from the peripheral and central chemoreceptors. Since overactivity of the carotid bodies, the main peripheral chemoreceptors, is linked to the pathophysiology of disparate metabolic and cardiovascular diseases, carotid body denervation (CBD) has been proposed as a potential treatment. However, long-term effects of CBD on the respiratory rhythm and re...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the evolution of irregularity and variability of airflow (AF) signals as sleep apnoea-hypopnoea syndrome (SAHS) severity increases in children. We analyzed 501 AF recordings from children 6.2 ± 3.4 years old. The respiratory rate variability (RRV) signal, which is obtained from AF, was also estimated. The proposed methodology consisted of three phases: (i) e...

Previous studies have reported that the respiratory cycle of healthy newborns is more irregular during active sleep. This study aimed to apply non-linear analysis to examine the irregularity of respiratory movement in newborns at different sleep states. The respiratory movement signals from an abdominal band during quiet and active sleep were analyzed using approximate entropy (ApEn). The breat...

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Accurate descriptions of organ motion due to breathing are highly desirable for radiation treatment planning. This paper proposes an index that quantifies the irregularity of a signal related to respiratory motion. The method works by finding the periodic band-limited signal that best fits the signal samples, and then computing the root mean squared (RMS) residual error. The fitted signal itsel...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Regularity of respiration is characteristic of stable sleep without sleep disordered breathing. Appearance of respiratory irregularity may indicate onset of wakefulness. The present study examines whether one can detect transitions from sleep to wakefulness using only the CPAP flow signal and automate this recognition. DESIGN Prospective study with blinded analysis SETTING ...

It is easily observed that the vertices of a simple graph cannot have pairwise distinct degrees. This means no order at least two is, in this way, irregular. However, multigraph can be Chartrand et al., 1988, posed following problem: loopless multigraph, how one determine fewest parallel edges required to ensure all degrees? problem known as labeling and, for its solution, al. introduced irregu...

This study was designed to specifically characterize the autonomic phenotype of cardiorespiratory dysregulation during the nighttime in young girls with MECP2 mutation-confirmed Rett Syndrome (RS), studied in their home environment. Computerized breath-to-breath and beat-to-beat characterization of at-home continuously recorded respiratory inductance plethysmography of chest/abdomen and ECG (Vi...

A respiratory training system based on audiovisual biofeedback has been implemented at our institution. It is intended to improve patients' respiratory regularity during four-dimensional (4D) computed tomography (CT) image acquisition. The purpose is to help eliminate the artifacts in 4D-CT images caused by irregular breathing, as well as improve delivery efficiency during treatment, where resp...